robustrao
An Extended Rao-Stirling Diversity Index to Handle Missing Data
Description
A collection of functions to compute the Rao-Stirling diversity index (Porter and Rafols, 2009) <DOI:10.1007/s11192-008-2197-2> and its extension to acknowledge missing data (i.e., uncategorized references) by calculating its interval of uncertainty using mathematical optimization as proposed in Calatrava et al. (2016) <DOI:10.1007/s11192-016-1842-4>. The Rao-Stirling diversity index is a well-established bibliometric indicator to measure the interdisciplinarity of scientific publications. Apart from the obligatory dataset of publications with their respective references and a taxonomy of disciplines that categorizes references as well as a measure of similarity between the disciplines, the Rao-Stirling diversity index requires a complete categorization of all references of a publication into disciplines. Thus, it fails for a incomplete categorization; in this case, the robust extension has to be used, which encodes the uncertainty caused by missing bibliographic data as an uncertainty interval. Classification / ACM - 2012: Information systems ~ Similarity measures, Theory of computation ~ Quadratic programming, Applied computing ~ Digital libraries and archives.
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Maintainer: ‘Maria del Carmen Calatrava Moreno <mc.calatrava.moreno@gmail.com>’
No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
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Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Maria", "del", "Carmen", "Calatrava"),
family = "Moreno",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "mc.calatrava.moreno@gmail.com"),
person(given = "Thomas",
family = "Auzinger",
role = "aut"))
as necessary.
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CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Maria del Carmen Calatrava Moreno <mc.calatrava.moreno@gmail.com>’
No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Maria", "del", "Carmen", "Calatrava"),
family = "Moreno",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "mc.calatrava.moreno@gmail.com"),
person(given = "Thomas",
family = "Auzinger",
role = "aut"))
as necessary.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList(). Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry(). Please
use bibentry() instead.
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NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 9, 2026
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Maria del Carmen Calatrava Moreno <mc.calatrava.moreno@gmail.com>’
No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Maria", "del", "Carmen", "Calatrava"),
family = "Moreno",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "mc.calatrava.moreno@gmail.com"),
person(given = "Thomas",
family = "Auzinger",
role = "aut"))
as necessary.
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Maria del Carmen Calatrava Moreno <mc.calatrava.moreno@gmail.com>’
No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Maria", "del", "Carmen", "Calatrava"),
family = "Moreno",
role = c("aut", "cre"),
email = "mc.calatrava.moreno@gmail.com"),
person(given = "Thomas",
family = "Auzinger",
role = "aut"))
as necessary.